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UK: Boris Johnson slammed for saying over 20 years ago that “Muslims weren’t exactly angels”

Jun 21, 2020 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

It gets more ridiculous daily, from destroying historic statues to starting a witch-hunt against Boris Johnson for saying — in 1997 — that “Muslims weren’t exactly angels.” He’s was correct then and his words are still true, as can be seen when one observes the human rights abuses worldwide that are regularly committed in the name of Islam and in accord with its teachings. And contrary to the present ginned-up hysteria, it is quite clear that he was referring to Muslims fighting in the wars in the Balkans, not to all Muslims.

Yet predictably, Johnson’s words are being treated as though they were “blasphemous,” transgressing against the mainstream narrative about the “Srebrenica genocide.” There have, however, been different accounts of what actually happened in Srebrenica. It is undeniable that many Muslims were massacred there; however, whether what happened was actually a genocide, on par with the the genocide against the Jews in Nazi Germany and World War II Europe, and the genocide of Armenian, Greek and Assyrian Christians in Turkey in the early twentieth century, is open to question. Read the Jihad Watch article from 2009: “After 14 years of investigating events that took place in Srebrenica in 1995 I can attest there was no genocide over Muslims in that enclave.”

Another more recent Jihad Watch article describes the problem with Bosnia, HERE.

“Boris Johnson slammed for saying Muslims ‘weren’t exactly angels’ in unearthed article,” by Sian Elvin, Metro, June 19, 2020:

The Prime Minister has been slammed for an article he wrote more than 20 years ago about the Srebrenica genocide.

Boris Johnson wrote in the Daily Telegraph in 1997: ‘All right, I say, the fate of the Srebrenica was appalling. But they weren’t exactly angels, these Muslims.’

The comment was penned as part of a response to Nicaraguan actress and human rights activist Bianca Jagger, who wrote an essay accusing Western countries of collaborating in Bosnian Serb atrocities against Muslims.

He also said: ‘Sometimes there are causes where there is no room for cynicism, and where frankly it is immaterial how much she is driven by moral outrage and how much by the desire to burnish her halo.

‘She is on the trail of an infamy that is in danger of being forgotten. ‘It is two years after what appears to have been the worst massacre on European soil since the Third Reich.’ Mr Johnson later added:

‘But what could the West really have done? Fought hand to hand with the glass-eating hordes of Serbia? This wasn’t our war, I suggest. Like all Bosnia hawks she believes it could have been done from the air.’

The Srebrenica genocide saw the mass killings of more than 8,000 Bosniaks – the majority of whom were Muslim by religion – in a town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina in July 1995 during the Bosnian War….

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  1. Antiislamicman says

    Jun 21, 2020 at 8:32 am

    He’s correct as his family are from an Islamic background. Muslim are the devil’s deciples. The blind followers don’t know this, they are victims of this evil cult.

    • ISAAC says

      Jun 21, 2020 at 10:17 pm

      Mohammed was a horrible man. He was in his late 40’s when he began stalking a cousin.
      Aisha. Married her in his
      early 50’s. Yes he had his favourite virgin.

  2. AnnChristine says

    Jun 21, 2020 at 8:34 am

    A pity he did not heed his own words!

  3. RichardL says

    Jun 21, 2020 at 8:44 am

    He will apologise.

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Jun 21, 2020 at 12:33 pm

      I just hope he doesn’t wash some feet and shine some shoes also.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 21, 2020 at 11:48 pm

        +1

    • Louis Engelbrecht says

      Jun 22, 2020 at 5:45 am

      Islam spreads and consolidates its by Islamphobie . The weakness of the west is the strength of Islam.
      Do have our Chrsitian brothers and sisters in Christ not every reason to be afraid of Islam>? North Niigeria

    • Louis Engelbrecht says

      Jun 22, 2020 at 6:33 am

      Isn’t ir srtange Mohamed claims that an angel seemingly the angel Gabriel who gave the messages to him. By the way this is defiinitely this is by way the angel Gabriel who brought Maria the message that she will give birth – by the intervention of the Holy Spirit – a child called Jesus our Saviour. Luke 1, 35 Now Josef Smith of the Church of the lartter days Mormons also claiimed that the angel; Mormon gave him the insight to decipher the old criptic scriptures, but as I have heard from an ex Mormon claims that this was a hoax.
      Mohammed had 11 wifes and Josef Smith might have had even more. Both the Muslimns and the Mormons teach that one issaved by one’s work and not by grace.This is the overwhelming new insight. ofex Muslims – it is very liberating to the, saved only by grace Louis

  4. mortimer says

    Jun 21, 2020 at 8:49 am

    Boris Johnson knows one HELL of a lot more about political Islam than almost anyone in Britain. When he says, ‘They weren’t angels’, he is speaking from FAMILY EXPERIENCE.

    Ali Kemal (Bey) was the great-grandfather of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a liberal-leaning secular politician in Turkey, a Minister of the Inner, a journalist and newspaper editor. He was murdered during the Turkish War of Independence.

    Johnson ‘gets it’. The Islamist government of Turkey committed one of the greatest GENOCIDES in in the 20th century (3 million murdered Turkish Christians). The genocides of Turkey inspired the grand Holocaust of Adolf Hitler.

    PM Johnson should stare them down. They should be ashamed of their shallowness and stupidity!

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 21, 2020 at 11:53 pm

      I hope he does–but fear he won’t.

  5. mortimer says

    Jun 21, 2020 at 8:57 am

    Factually, Boris Johnson is wrong to say that there was ‘NO genocide’. There was a definite planned massacre, rape and abuse of civilians that were in clear contravention of international military protocols.

    In 2004, in a unanimous ruling on the case of Prosecutor v. Krstić, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), located in The Hague, ruled that the massacre of the enclave’s male inhabitants constituted genocide, a crime under international law. The ruling was also upheld by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2007. The forcible transfer and abuse of between 25,000 and 30,000 Bosniak women, children and elderly which accompanied the massacre was found to constitute genocide, when accompanied with the killings and separation of the men.

    The International Criminal Tribunal is the successor of the Nuremburg Tribunal which condemned genocidal fascism in Germany, and it is their call to identify a true genocide.

    • LB says

      Jun 22, 2020 at 9:31 am

      Hmm… A special tribunal set up by the UN to judge the one country it already predetermined to portray as the villain before the war even started? Gee, I wonder how that will turn out….

      So tell me Mortimer, since you’re so knowledgeable on the subject, how many Christian Serbs and how many muslims Bosniaks were indicted by the said “court”? And how did it manage to detain the defendants in a foreign country?

      While you’re googling for an answer (although you shouldn’t really use google if you want accurate information), let me tell you a story of one Naser Oric — a muslim Bosniak “war hero”. He started his glorious military career by leading a guerrilla attack on a Christian Serbian village of Kravica during a Christian wedding on Orthodox Easter, massacring every man woman and child in the village in the most brutal ways imaginable (I’m not going to describe his methods, but let’s just say he preferred to use melee weapons so that he could save as much ammunition as he could; he also liked barbecue). This event is actually what kick-started the Serbian-Bosnian war.

      Throughout the war, Naser lead similar attacks against other Serbian villages within Bosnian territory (note how he never engaged with Serbian military), most of which he launched from the established UN “safe zone” located in Srebrenica. That meant he could strike wherever he wanted and safely retreat back behind the UN. This is why Srebrenica in particular was in Serbia’s crosshairs. Once Serbian army was finally upon the city, Naser and his man bravely stood their ground and defended it, right? Not really. In fact, the Serbs didn’t fire a single bullet while taking the city because there wasn’t a single armed man in it, so they simply strolled in. So where was Naser and how could he abandon his muslim Bosniak brothers and sisters to the mercy of “genocidal” Serbs? Good question.

      Fast forward into early 21st century, Bosnia was eventually forced to turn him over to the “esteemed” and “unbiased” tribunal in Hague. His verdict? Not guilty. He returned to Bosnia celebrated as a national hero where he lives happily to this day. This is a story about just ONE Bosnian muslim. There were many other “war heroes” like him who were likewise cleared of all charges and even more of them who never even saw Prague.

      If you want to know the actual TRUTH about Srebrenica and its “genocide”, I’ve linked below a documentary made by a NORWEGIAN and a BOSNIAN MUSLIM who fought in the war against the Serbs. It has actual real video footage and images from the war and it’s mostly narrated in English with subs during non-English parts. I suggest you watch it.

  6. No Muzzies Here says

    Jun 21, 2020 at 11:31 am

    9/11 wasn’t exactly an accident. The beheading murder of Lee Rigby by a Muslim wasn’t exactly a scratch on the neck. The grooming gangs in the UK weren’t exactly boy scouts. Islam isn’t exactly a risky superstition.

  7. Jayell says

    Jun 21, 2020 at 11:38 am

    Whatever the reason for Iggy Ostanin digging up Boris Johnson’s old article, just look down to the bottom of the original Metro source and you’ll see why it’s been blown up as it has:-

    “Miqdaad Versi, spokesperson for the Muslim Council, tweeted: ‘Appalling by our Prime Minister….”

    So, who’s got their foot in the door of the Metro editor’s office? As usual!

    • mortimer says

      Jun 21, 2020 at 12:02 pm

      Good research. They left out the context of the article which was the attack on British civilians in the Underground. (We’re not surprised with deceit … more taqiyya.)

      The 7 July 2005 London bombings, often referred to as 7/7, were a series of coordinated Islamic terrorist suicide attacks in London, England, that targeted commuters travelling on the city’s public transport system during the morning rush hour.. Four Islamic terrorists separately detonated three homemade bombs in quick succession.

  8. mortimer says

    Jun 21, 2020 at 12:09 pm

    ‘They weren’t exactly angels,’ said Boris Johnson. His words are typical British understatement of the case against Islam.

    In fact, jihad terrorism has been responsible for 270 million deaths:

    -120 million black Africans killed … the largest racist genocide in history
    -80 million Hindus killed … the largest religious genocide in history
    -60 million Christians killed or enslaved
    -10 million Buddhists killed (more than Hitler’s genocide)
    -500,000 Jews killed

    -192,857 deaths caused by Islam per year since Mohammed began his attacks.
    -1 KILLED every 3 minutes by Islam since Mohammed began his attacks.

    They were DEVILS, not angels.

    • Mario Alexis Portella says

      Jun 21, 2020 at 4:09 pm

      they still are! http://www.faithfreedom.org/the-pretension-of-muslims-who-claim-to-fight-against-racism/

  9. gravenimage says

    Jun 21, 2020 at 11:47 pm

    UK: Boris Johnson slammed for saying over 20 years ago that “Muslims weren’t exactly angels”
    ………………

    This was a massive understatement 20 years ago, and even more so now.

  10. VictorMc says

    Jun 22, 2020 at 4:16 am

    Oh why Oh why do you print this rubbish ?

  11. Jake2169 says

    Jun 22, 2020 at 5:22 am

    A war of deceit begins once again. Accusing Boris of words he said years ago is stretching things somewhat. I goes to show the desperation deeply seated within the metal state of Muslims and Islam in general. The MSM will do and say anything to appease Islam, they are terrified of repercussions so they attack Boris instead of the very real enemy of us all, Islam. The only way left for the people is going to be war waged on the streets. Our governments are submitting daily, they refuse to stand firm and combat a threat to us all, they tend to give in, we’ll have no other option but to fight for our freedom against the lunatic Muslims invading Europe. Todays cowardly politicians are waiting to see if things will settle down, waiting to see if the people submit to Islam before following suit and then pretending to their new masters that they converted long ago!!

  12. OLD GUY says

    Jun 22, 2020 at 12:11 pm

    He’s partly right they are not angles they are the DEVIL followers. How can islam be called a religion? Islam promotes and demands that its followers kill non islamic followers who won’t convert, abuse and rape of women and children and takes the freedom of speech and humanity from the world. It sounds more like a DICTATORSHIP than a religion.

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